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Securing Critical Transport Infrastructure: The Role of the
Private Sector
UNECE Working Party on Transport Trends
and Economics Geneva
8 September, 2015
Dr. Adnan Rahman Director General
IRF Geneva
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Critical Infrastructure
Mode Assets
Aviation Airports, Air Traffic Control Systems, Aircraft
Rail Freight Rail lines, rail cars, locomotives, marshaling
yards, control centers
Roads & Motor Carriers Roads, Bridges, Tunnels, automobiles,
Traffic Management Centers
Maritime (Inland and deep sea)
Vessels, Inland Waterways, Ports
Public Transport and Passenger Rail
Public transport vehicles (trams, metro-systems, …),
stations
Pipelines Gas and oil pipelines
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Transport
Energy
Agriculture
Defense
Communication sector
Manufacturing Emergency
Services
Retail
Healthcare
Postal delivery
What makes it critical?
• Cross-sector dependencies • Inter-dependency of transport
modes • Large impact of disruption • Potentially large loss of
life
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Process to Develop Policy for Protecting Critical
Infrastructure
Identify Assets,
Systems & Networks
Risk Assessment
Choore Focus Areas
Implement Measures
Measure Performance
Set Protection
Goals
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Identifying Assets, Systems, and Networks
• Sector provides information to determine vulnerabillity
(physical elements, humans, information)
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Risk Assessment
• Risk from natural disasters, accidents, and terrorist
attacks
• Risks to and from the transport sector
• Safety, privacy and stakeholder concerns (disruptions,
privacy-security conflicts, safety-security conflicst)
• Financail and commercial considerations
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Implement Measures
• Compliance with policy
• Provide data to monitor compliance
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Measure Performance
• Compliance with policy
• Provide data to monitor compliance
• Test own preparedness
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Set Goals
• Absoloute protection is prohibitively expensive
• Trade-off security versus costs
• Realistic goals
• Value for money
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Conclusions
• Private sector has high stakes in ensuring the safety and
security
• Protection comes at a cost
• Minimising disruption and costs should be part of decision
calculus
• Private sector plays a vital role in protecting critical
infrastructure
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Recommendations
• Involve the private sector
– Do it early in the process of creating plans and policies
– Partnerships
• Co-ordinated approach is necessary
– Across transport modes
– Across boundaries
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Thank you
